Paris-based Minitap, an AI-powered mobile development platform, today announced it has raised €3.5 million ($4.1 million) in Seed funding in order to expand its agentic-AI infrastructure and accelerate the automation of mobile feature development, testing, and iteration.
The round was co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and six unicorn founders: Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Stefan Glanzer & Michael Breidenbrucker (Last.fm), Paul Muller (Adjust), Petter Made (SumUp), Daniel Krauss, Jochen Engert & André Schwämmlein (FlixBus) and Saturnin Pugnet (Worldcoin). The round also includes operators from OpenAI, DeepMind, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
“We spent two years building our first viral mobile product, today, and I’m embarrassed by that timeline,” said Nicolas Dehandschoewercker, co-founder and CEO of Minitap. “Mobile is 60% of internet usage but moves at 10% of web speed. Every consumer app company (Duolingo, Calm, Hinge etc) ships 5x more experiments on web than mobile. We built Minitap to close that gap for everyone.”
In 2025, several European startups working in adjacent AI and software-infrastructure sectors also secured new investment, signalling continued momentum across the region.
Geneva-based Allasso raised €2.5 million to expand its AI-enabled analytics platform for options trading, while Munich’s 36ZERO Vision secured €3.6 million to scale its data-efficient AI inspection technology. Spain’s Omnia closed a €3.5 million pre-Seed round to build an AI-driven platform for brand content generation, and France-based GetVocal raised €22 million to grow its hybrid AI customer-experience system.
Combined, these rounds represent roughly €31.6 million of investment flowing into AI-native platforms across Europe.
Against this backdrop, Minitap’s Seed round adds to a broader pattern of early-stage funding for companies building foundational AI infrastructure, even though few recent announcements specifically target mobile-development tooling.
This positions Minitap within a growing but still under-represented category of AI-driven developer platforms, with France also appearing among the active countries in this funding landscape.
“Every consumer mobile company needs to experiment faster,” added co-founder Luc Mahoux-Nakamura. “The companies that run 10x more experiments will win their markets. We’re building the infrastructure that makes that speed possible.”
Founded in 2025, Minitap combines open-source AI agent frameworks with cloud infrastructure to automate mobile testing and iteration. It is an AI-powered mobile development platform that enables engineering teams to ship features “10x faster“. Their vision is to make mobile development so seamless, non-technical teams at consumer app companies can build entire features on mobile apps without going through the engineering.
While tools like Cursor and Claude enable web developers to ship features in 2 days that previously took 2 weeks, the company argues that those same AI tools remain largely ineffective for mobile – unable to test on devices, iterate when things break, or verify features work across configurations.
Minitap aims to solve this bottleneck, enabling engineering teams to build mobile features in days, instead of the usual six weeks.
“Nicolas is leading one of the fastest teams I’ve seen. It comes from years of working together, knowing mobile inside out, and understanding how to build AI systems that hold up. The combination of AI research capabilities, mobile development skills, and sheer hunger of will is unprecedented and ideal for solving this specific problem,” said Daniel Dippold, Founder and CEO of EWOR.
Minitap’s technical achievement centers on two innovations: mobile-use; an open-source framework that lets AI agents control phones like humans, and minitap cloud; infrastructure that instantly spins up any phone configuration – iOS or Android – across thousands of devices in parallel.
These tools connect to AI coding environments, enabling AI to write mobile code, test it on real devices, identify bugs, fix itself, and ship working features autonomously.
Within their first 40 days, Minitap claimed the first position on Google DeepMind’s AndroidWorld benchmark, the industry standard for measuring AI control of mobile devices. The founders then open-sourced their entire solution, growing their repository to 1,900 GitHub stars.
“When you see two 23-year-olds from rural France beat Google in 40 days, you recognise something rare,” said Katie Jacobs Stanton, Founder and General Partner at Moxxie Ventures. “Nico and Luc are solving a massive problem that they uniquely understand and are moving at an urgent speed.”
In the long term, the team plans to build mobile apps that optimise themselves autonomously, running experiments, analysing user behaviour, generating hypotheses, building variations, measuring results, and iterating – all without human intervention.
“minitap is one of the first companies that is bringing agentic AI to mobile use and possibly the very first that is taking a full stack approach to enable the use of AI coding agents for mobile app development. This is a substantial challenge and a huge opportunity that Nico and Luc are uniquely positioned to solve,” said Esha Vatsa, Partner at Mercuri.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/12/following-its-top-performance-on-androidworld-frances-minitap-secures-e3-5-million-for-its-mobile-development-platform/
